Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-24
PERSONAL,

Mr.. LIE is member of the Kentucky Leg
slature.
PRESIDENT !MCCosH, of Princeton, denies
the report that he is to resign.
Col. DAN LAMONT is said to sigh for the
days when he was newspaper reporter.
FRED DOUGLASS has pretty place in the
suburbs of w Washington which is worth sl2, 900.
JOAQUIN MILLER is in California, and his
famous log cabin ia Washingto is closed and
showed up this winter.
GEORGE PARSONS LATHRoP is to contribute
to the February Century an article on the
"BaIling of jefferson DAVIS"
MISS ADA kURTZ has been reappointed
Deputy sheriff of Franklin county, Pa, She
served one term with credit.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has invested $4,000
marks OF his private money in the stock of
the German-African Trading Company.
THE Princess Of Wales continues to mourn
over the death of her favorite poodle. Minis
Ter Phelps rs reported in deep distress over
The sad event.
NINE. MINNIE HAUK is now living in Paris.
L. March he VIII make a professional tour
through Austria and Germany, and thence
proceed to England.
1T is said that the President aud Mrs Cley-
land contemplate a lot of jauntA TINS summer;
that they intend going to the Pacific slope
through the south, spending some time in the
woods Of Michigan and New York.
Ex-PREsIDrNr ANDREW . WHITE has
presented TO Cornell University his marnh-
conf historical library, VIII ch contains 30, 600
vo ume5, besides 10000 valuable pamphlets
and many manuscripts, and cost him at least
Sl0o,O0J.
WIEN jim Keene went from san Francisco
10 New York in u palace car The Wall street
sharks said that in three mouths they would
send him back IN a cattle car. They downed
him for "a time, juL he IS now SAID to have a
comfortable fortune well in hand again.
James Brown Potter: "Sho IL hardly pretty.
The Prince (of Wales agree that h"r figure
was poor. her arms were detective and her
complexion bad" The world awaits with
ter5 opinion Of Mrs. Langtry.
GEORGE CUNNIBEL HOWARD. the old-time
actor OF st. Clair in UuCic Toms Cabin, IS
dead. lie was born in HALIFAX IN 1920, and
had been on the stage since lSES. His fame
wa. made by the worA OF his wife, daughter,
and himself IN Uncle TOMS Cabin since Sept.
u. 1852. when they played in the Troy
Museum.
THE late Prof. Youmans will be remem-
bered chieny from the fact that he found, or
created, tor Herbert spencer, Darwin, IuX.
ley and ny ndall an audience IN America be-
fore they had gained one In England. Atone
time Prof. iOUmans was entirely deprived Of
his eyesight, and he invented a machine, az
did Prescott the historian, which enabled
him to write.
MRS. CLARtssA DAVENPORT RAYMOND died
! in Walton, Conn, on Wednesday. aged l0i
| years months and % days. Her husband died
in ls14. She was the Oldest person in Con-
necticut. She has many descendants, inciud-
| Ing number of great great granu children.
| Unul she was past 100 she road ordinary type
| easily, and still later surprised all who knew
| her by the promptness aud accuracy of her
recollection.
CUsHMAN X. DAVIS, the new Senator from
| Minnesota, is described IA medium sized
| soidly-built man, whose roundness OF body
! and limb indicates that he lives well. A
! hand like a woman's ana voice soft and
! pleasant in common conversation and reso-
! nAnt with ringing richness when in public
| speech" The good eject of this pleasing
! picture is much married, however, by the adj
| dtional information that he bears striking
! dfObrirg evcrd.